CAA’s Eddy Yablans joins LBI Entertainment As Partner
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Veteran talent agent Eddy Yablans is leaving CAA to join Rick Yorn’s management company LBI Entertainment as a partner.
Yablans, whose agenting career spans 35 years at ICM and CAA, will start his new job on Jan. 1 and will be based in Los Angeles and New York.
Many of his existing clients are expected to remain with him in his role as a manager. At CAA, Yablans represented such performers as Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Daniels, Gabriel Macht, Leslie Bibb, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Gretchen Mol, Janelle James, Jim Belushi, Jared Harris, Ian McShane, Patrick J Adams, and James Austin Johnson, the majority of whom he also had repped at ICM as many of his clients have been with him for 25-30 years. “I am thrilled to be joining Rick and everyone at LBI,” Yablans said. “They are the best at what they do, and I’m so excited to continue representing my clients in a more intimate and personal manner.” Yablans began his career in the mailroom at ICM in 1988.
He was a founding partner and board member of ICM Partners and moved to CAA following the agency’s 2022 acquisition of ICM. “I’ve known Eddy since I started in the business and he’s been such a great friend all these years,” Yorn said. “He’s truly one of the greats in the industry and I couldn’t be more excited to now work with him as part of the LBI team.” Yablans’ career move had been in the works for awhile.
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